I don't think this question is high-end enough to warrant placement in the extreme cooling section, but if I'm wrong, mods feel free to move me and accept my apologies in advance.
I'm currently planning and ordering parts to build a rig from the ground up to do a custom total immersion oil cool rig. Obviously, it's been done before and there's plenty of info about it available. My problem is that I'm taking this one step further and actually adding fish into the equation.
What I've got going is a 20 gallon aquarium nested inside a 75 gallon aquarium. I just custom fabricated a shelf for the back corner of the larger aquarium (which will be the water / fish tank) and then I'll have the PC rig (the 20 gallon) on that shelf so that the tops of both aquariums are flush(ish).
My concern is that by having the PC rig submerged in the water of the fish tank, I'm going to have a decent amount of radiant heat exchange into the fish environment, which is potentially bad for the fishies. My PC tank is plexi, so it's not the biggest heat loss concern, but I think certainly enough to warrant going ahead and playing it safe and putting an external radiator system on the PC rig /tank and venting the heat outside both tanks.
I've never worked with external rads for PCs, and all of my research thus far has turned up a lot of results that don't tell me what I really want / need to know. What I'm looking for is general product recommendations for an external rad system in this context. Obviously, it'll be pushing mineral oil and not water, so I don't know how much of a factor the viscosity difference will play (if any). Because this is part of an actual working fish tank, noise factor is much less of an issue as I'll have the pumps and whatnot from the fish in the vicinity. A little bit of hum or rumble is okay, just not "nails in a blender."
As far as the actual PC heat generation, I'm not going to be running anything high end. Basic quad core Intel, 550W PSU, SSD HD, and a Radeon 6750 for graphics. I don't think I'll need a monster rad system, but certainly something that can minimize the heat going into the fish compartment a fair bit.
Any advice or product recommendations is certainly welcome. I know as much about external radiation units as I know about brain surgery, so even a poke and jab towards letting me know some reputable company names would be a big help. Thanks in advance!
I'm currently planning and ordering parts to build a rig from the ground up to do a custom total immersion oil cool rig. Obviously, it's been done before and there's plenty of info about it available. My problem is that I'm taking this one step further and actually adding fish into the equation.
What I've got going is a 20 gallon aquarium nested inside a 75 gallon aquarium. I just custom fabricated a shelf for the back corner of the larger aquarium (which will be the water / fish tank) and then I'll have the PC rig (the 20 gallon) on that shelf so that the tops of both aquariums are flush(ish).
My concern is that by having the PC rig submerged in the water of the fish tank, I'm going to have a decent amount of radiant heat exchange into the fish environment, which is potentially bad for the fishies. My PC tank is plexi, so it's not the biggest heat loss concern, but I think certainly enough to warrant going ahead and playing it safe and putting an external radiator system on the PC rig /tank and venting the heat outside both tanks.
I've never worked with external rads for PCs, and all of my research thus far has turned up a lot of results that don't tell me what I really want / need to know. What I'm looking for is general product recommendations for an external rad system in this context. Obviously, it'll be pushing mineral oil and not water, so I don't know how much of a factor the viscosity difference will play (if any). Because this is part of an actual working fish tank, noise factor is much less of an issue as I'll have the pumps and whatnot from the fish in the vicinity. A little bit of hum or rumble is okay, just not "nails in a blender."
As far as the actual PC heat generation, I'm not going to be running anything high end. Basic quad core Intel, 550W PSU, SSD HD, and a Radeon 6750 for graphics. I don't think I'll need a monster rad system, but certainly something that can minimize the heat going into the fish compartment a fair bit.
Any advice or product recommendations is certainly welcome. I know as much about external radiation units as I know about brain surgery, so even a poke and jab towards letting me know some reputable company names would be a big help. Thanks in advance!
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